Immelt Book Quotes & Sayings

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. — Patti Smith

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. — Philip Warren Anderson

She watched hungrily for visitors from out of town, threw open her arms at the slightest hint of a wind and at night she struggled Jacob-like against the ocean pressing down on her. — Junot Diaz

I am a star, a twinkling star. I'm an infant on the edge of a grave and an old man in a cradle, both a fish in the sky and a bird in the sea. I'm a boy on the outside but a girl on the inside, innocent in body, guilty in soul. — Fridrik Erlings

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else? — Gayle Forman

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. — Alastair Reynolds

I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it. — Biz Stone

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different. — Lily Collins

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America — Barbara Ehrenreich

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened. — Michael Bassey Johnson

At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard. — D.H. Lawrence

I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers. — Adam Ferrara